Hi, Karl: I am not a lawyer either, but this license is not CC-by, but an license of the Mexican authorities. It asks only for attribution, something that could be done adding it to the wiki, changesets and relations.
Cheers, Rafael. On 01/09/15 15:38, Karl Wettin wrote: > Hi Andrés, > > Personally I would have started this thread on OSM legal-talk > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk> to clear the license. > > IANAL, but as far as I understand the LIBRE USO MX-license is due to the > by-clause not compatible with ODbL. If this is true so you'd have to ask the > data owner to release the data as ODbL, CC0 or without a license (public > domain). > > My understanding is that you do not comply with the by-clause unless you > annotate every raw data point displayed or used in a derivate such as a > rendered map. I.e. as the data is added to OSM the Mexican government will > become "just another OSM contributor” and as a third party extract this data > will will be annotated with “(C) OpenStreetMap contributors” rather than “(C) > INEGI, MGN 2014 v6.2”. > > Once again, IANAL and I might have gotten it all wrong, this is just how I’ve > interpreted previous discussions on the topic. > > > karl > >> On 01 Sep 2015, at 07:01, Andres Ortiz Haro <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> We would like to let you know about Mexico's Administrative Divisions Import >> Project as well as to ask for commentaries regarding the project. >> >> Mexico currently lacks full coverage of all of its administrative boundary >> data at the municipal level. The datasets to be used are available for free >> and open, based on a license from the Mexican Government which was released >> in 2014 to make this type of government data open so there isn't any legal >> hurdle on using this data. >> >> The goal of this project is to properly and completely map all boundaries at >> the municipal level in order to have useful boundary data in OSM. The >> project has been discussed with the local community and there was an >> agreement on the objectives of this import down to the municipal level. >> >> A wiki has been written that documents all the details of the project [1]. >> >> Your comments are welcome. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Andrés Ortiz Haro >> >> [1] >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mexico%27s_Administrative_Divisions_Import_Project >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Imports mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Twitter: @ravilacoya <http://twitter.com/ravilacoya> *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)* <http://www.hotosm.org> _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
